Greater Sylhet Welfare and Development Council - is it kosher?

I smell a rat...

Bit of background: the UK has received immigrants from all countries in the Indian sub-continent; but several communities come from small areas. For instance, Mirpur District in Kashmir has a population, it seems, of around 350,000. Yet the UK population of Mirpuri origin number around 300,000 [1].

Similarly, a large proportion of the UK population of Bangladeshi origin (ie, from ex-East Pakistan) come from the Sylhet division of Bangladesh (according to this, with a population of around 9 million out of a national total of 140 million.)

The best-known concentration of Sylhetis in the UK is in the East End of London, around Brick Lane.

End of background!

Reference is made to the Greater Sylhet Welfare and Development Council in a Guardian piece today on a novel - Brick Lane by Monica Ali - which just happens to be up for - the Guardian First Book Award:

The Greater Sylhet Welfare and Development Council, which represents many of Britain's 500,000 Bangladeshis, has written an 18-page letter to the author outlining their objections to the "shameful" way the book depicts the community.

On the organisation, searches on Google and AllTheWeb produce a blank.